Sargent's Women: Four Lives Behind the Canvas
In this seductive, multilayered biography, based on original letters and diaries, Donna M. Lucey illuminates four extraordinary women painted by the iconic high-society portraitist John Singer Sargent. With uncanny intuition, Sargent hinted at the mysteries and passions that unfolded in his...
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In this seductive, multilayered biography, based on original letters and diaries, Donna M. Lucey illuminates four extraordinary women painted by the iconic high-society portraitist John Singer Sargent.
With uncanny intuition, Sargent hinted at the mysteries and passions that unfolded in his subjects’ lives. These women inhabited a rarefied world of wealth and strict conventions — yet all of them did something unexpected, something shocking, to upend society’s rules.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780393356168 (0393356167)
Publish date: 2018-07-24
Publisher: W. W. Norton Company
Pages no: 311
Edition language: English
2.5 StarsReally wanted to love this one as it had all the elements I was looking for in a good book but unfortunately it fell flat for me and I will try to outline my reasons why.I love reading books about painters and their muses and was really excited when I read the premise for this book. A multi...
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